Thursday, May 14, 2015

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Dan Glickmanis
the Executive Director of the Aspen
InstituteCongressional Program, a nongovernmental, nonpartisan educational program for
members of the United States Congress. The program provides lawmakers with a
stronger grasp of critical public policy issues by convening high-level
conferences and breakfast meetings in which legislators are brought together
with internationally-recognized academics, experts and leaders to study the
issues and explore various policy alternatives.

He served as the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture from March 1995
until January 2001. Under his leadership, the Department administered farm and
conservation programs; modernized food safety regulations; forged international
trade agreements to expand U.S. markets; and improved its commitment to
fairness and equality in civil rights.

Before his appointment as Secretary of Agriculture, Secretary
Glickman served for 18 years in the U.S. House of Representatives representing
the 4th Congressional District of Kansas. During that time, he was a member of
the House Agriculture Committee, including six years as chairman of the
subcommittee with jurisdiction over federal farm policy issues. Moreover, he
was an active member of the House Judiciary Committee; chairman of the House
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence; and was a leading congressional
expert on general aviation policy.

Secretary Glickman is also a Senior Fellow at the Bipartisan
Policy Center in Washington, D.C. The BPC was formed in 2007 by former Senate
Majority Leaders Howard Baker, Tom Daschle, Bob Dole and George Mitchell to
develop and promote bipartisan solutions to the country's problems and to promote
civility in government. As part of the Bipartisan Policy Center's program, he
and former cabinet members Donna Shalala, Mike Leavitt and Ann Veneman co-chair
an Initiative on Nutrition and Physical Activity, which recently published a
Paper recommending substantially augmenting medical school training of doctors
and other health care professionals in the areas of nutrition, physical
activity and other prevention strategies.

Secretary Glickman served as Chairman of the Motion Picture
Association of America, Inc. (MPAA) from 2004 until 2010. Prior to joining the
MPAA, he was the Director of the Institute of Politics at Harvard University's
John F. Kennedy School of Government (2002-2004).

Before his election to Congress in 1976, Secretary Glickman
served as president of the Wichita School Board; was a partner in the law firm
of Sargent, Klenda and Glickman; and worked as a trial attorney at the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission. He received his Bachelor of Arts in history
from the University of Michigan and his J.D. from The George Washington
University. He is a member of the Kansas and District of Columbia Bars.

Secretary Glickman was elected to the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) Board
of Directors in September 2014. He is also on the board of directors of
the Chicago Mercantile Exchange; Food Research and Action Center, a domestic
anti-hunger organization; National 4-H Council; and the Center for U.S. Global
Engagement, where he is Chair of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition. He
co-chairs an initiative of eight U.S. based foundations looking at long-term
implications of food and agricultural policy. He is a member of the Council on
Foreign Relations, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and a senior
fellow of the Center on Communication Leadership and Policy at the USC
Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism, the Council on American
Politics at The Graduate School of Political Management at The George
Washington University, and is a member of the board of the World Food
Program-USA. He is the co-chair of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs'
global agricultural development initiative. In 2012 and 2013 Secretary Glickman
chaired an Institute of Medicine Panel on "Accelerating Progress in
Obesity Prevention". He is the author of "Farm Futures," in
Foreign Affairs (May/June 2009).

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"Aristotle the Hun" was the name given to me more than 30 years ago when a friend noticed that in spite of my intellect I was still an Iowa farm boy.

Rev. Sam Sewell, is Director of Best Self USA, a Pastoral Psychotherapist, serves on the faculty of Naples Community Hospital as an instructor for Clinical Pastoral Education, President of the Theological Center in Naples, a member of Mensa where he serves as Gifted Youth Coordinator, a U.S. Navy Veteran, and a Member of the Association For Intelligence Officers. He is a frequent commentator on mental health and religious issues.His award winning research on family issues is published in several languages. Member of Sigma Delta Chi Honor Society

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"Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men."- St. Augustine

"A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous, and then dismissed as trivial, until finally it becomes what everybody knows." -

William James

"This is the real task before us: to reassert our commitment as a nation to a law higher than our own, to renew our spiritual strength. Only by building a wall of such spiritual resolve can we, as a free people, hope to protect our own heritage and make it someday the birthright of all men." --Ronald Reagan

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government."-- Edward Abbey

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A man who has nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance at being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."John Stuart Mill

"A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government." ~~~George Washington

"I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University." William F. Buckley, Jr.

"Conservatives are enemies of the government. Liberals are enemies of the nation because they are not enemies of the government."Aristotle the Hun

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"Albert Einstein

"Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...it's about learning how to dance in the rain." ANON

"That government is best which governs least."Thomas Paine

“A nation that substitutes emotion and empathy for rational thought will eventually digress into the Dark Ages,”Congressman Steve King (R-IA),

INTEGRITY: The highest courage is to dare to be ourself in the face of adversity. Choosing ethics over convenience and truth over popularity means there is never a wrong time to do the right thing.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies.

The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

They may be more likely to go to Heaven for good intentions yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.~ C. S. Lewis

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." ANON

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